Sentence examples for with real teeth from inspiring English sources

She visualises "a robust, independent body with real teeth, with its own charter, powers and responsibilities.

"The settlement puts in place rules of the road with real teeth".

"You can think of a default as a balanced budget amendment with real teeth," he said.

We've shown the payday lenders we will have a regulator with real teeth".

If the two of them win, does he give her a White House job with real teeth?

She said regulation needed to be handled by a "robust, independent body with real teeth, with its own charter, powers and responsibilities".

After the summit, Treasury minister Sajid Javid appeared to take a swipe at the OFT when he said that from next year the industry would be dealing with a regulator "with some real teeth".

"They now have to deal with a regulator with some real teeth," said Treasury minister Sajid Javid.

A new self-regulator for the press with "very real teeth" could be established within three or four months to break the political impasse over royal charters, according to a Trinity Mirror executive involved with the project.

They have helped create the only international process with any real teeth in terms of improving aid effectiveness for development, and the five effectiveness principles first articulated in Paris are now common currency throughout the development industry.

Dimon favors an overarching regulatory body, a "systemic counsel" with "some real teeth".